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From: ericblake@comcast.net (Eric Blake)
To: PJ Halls <pjh1@york.ac.uk>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: redirecting /tmp and /var/tmp
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:49:57 +0000
Message-Id: <083020051449.21925.43147215000CDE49000055A522069984990A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net>

> For our classrooms, it is policy that all managed software be installed
> on read-only drives / C: partitions to prevent students meddling. 
> However, for Cygwin to run it must have write access to /tmp and
> /var/tmp.  Is there any way to 'redirect' these essentials from the
> Cygwin home space onto, for example, C:/temp (which is the only part of
> C: to which we permit our students write access)?

mount c:/temp /tmp
(or similar, read man mount for details)

--
Eric Blake


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